A WOMAN has admitted taking prohibited items into a top security prison.

Amy Sanfelix, from southern Scotland, has admitted two counts of conveying a prohibited item into a prison, in that without authority, she took cannabis and four phones into HMP Frankland, at Brasside, near Durham, between June 3 and 6, 2020.

The 33-year-old defendant, of Annan, in Dumfries and Galloway, made her admissions to the two charges at a plea hearing at Durham Crown Court.

Her counsel, Jennifer Coxon, said her client would have preferred the case to proceed to sentence at today’s (Monday March 7) hearing.

But Recorder Simon Goldberg said he would have to consider his sentence as the presence of drugs in prisons has, “a destabilising effect”.

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Sam Faulks, prosecuting, said the offence relating to the cannabis, classed as, “a list A article”, carries a maximum sentence of ten years.

The maximum sentence for the count relating to the phones, considered “list B” items, is two years’ imprisonment.

Recorder Goldberg adjourned sentence on Sanfelix and bailed her to return to court to learn her fate on Thursday (March 10).

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